diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b9895416..24c8aa48 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-[build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools<57", "wheel==0.33.1"]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
-
 [tool.isort]
 sections = "FUTURE,STDLIB,THIRDPARTY,FIRSTPARTY,LOCALFOLDER"
 profile = "black"
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index b66e355c..148173e6 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ project-urls =
 [options]
 include_package_data = True
 install_requires =
-    dask[array,diagnostics,distributed] != 2021.3.*
+    dask[array,diagnostics,distributed]!=2021.3.*,<2023.4
     h5py>=3.8
     hdf5plugin>=4.0.1
-    nexgen >= 0.7.2
+    nexgen>=0.7.2
     numpy
     pandas
     pint